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  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to, Sarajevo
  • noun Someone from Sarajevo.

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Examples

  • In the novella "Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls," a young Sarajevan travels to the United States and decides to stay when he sees war break out at home on CNN -- he goes on to experience a starkly contemporary version of "coming to America."

    The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary 2010

  • Sarajevan Fedja Stukan, who plans to act in the movie, defended Jolie's project, telling Bosnian media that we are not making a movie about a crazy woman falling in love with her rapist.

    Angelina Jolie To Bosnia: My Film Is Not A Rape Love Story AP 2010

  • Sarajevan Fedja Stukan, who plans to act in the movie, defended Jolie's project, telling Bosnian media that we are not making a movie about a crazy woman falling in love with her rapist.

    Angelina Jolie To Bosnia: My Film Is Not A Rape Love Story AP 2010

  • They were joined by Simon Glinn, a music producer who ran the Jazz World stage at Glastonbury, not so much to deliver aid as work with the Sarajevan underground scene to organise rock concerts and events under a banner calling itself the Sarajevo Community Music Project, and even a festival with Radio Zid called Rock Under Siege.

    War Child and the Bosnian war 15 years on 2010

  • As if to emphasize the point, the Serbs conducted new waves of ethnic cleansing in eastern Bosnia; the Muslims mounted an assault on Serbs in the Sarajevan suburbs.

    Give Peace A Chance? 2008

  • As a Sarajevan, the 37-year-old shopkeeper has endured such wake-up calls over the past 3 1/2 years.

    Make War, Make Peace 2008

  • "I personally wouldn't mind my apartment being destroyed in this final shelling," says Gordona Knezevic, deputy editor of Oslobodjenje, the Sarajevan newspaper that still comes out every day.

    Waiting For Spring In Sarajevo 2008

  • Now she is hiding from her family in a cold Sarajevan hospital, tormented by the thought of the unwanted child growing inside her.

    A Pattern Of Rape 2008

  • But for Australian tour operator Ben Robinson, founder of Eastern Europe Holidays, the city's greatest draw is Sarajevan honesty about the war.

    BACK FROM THE BRINK 2007

  • But for Australian tour operator Ben Robinson, founder of Eastern Europe Holidays, the city's greatest draw is Sarajevan honesty about the war.

    Back From the Brink 2007

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